Is a Sub 5 min Beer Mile Possible?

splits: 75, 75, 75, 75

but i don'tthink beer can run that fast

splits: 75, 75, 75, 75

but i don'tthink beer can run that fast

It will be done. It won't be done with even splits.

I opened a beer mile with a 72 second first lap and I actually felt that I was going too slow, until I heard the split. My second lap was a little over 80. After that...yeah, anyway.

I'm guessing that, when it's done, the first lap will be under 65.

Maybe it would look something like this: 64, 73, 78, 85.

800 dude wrote:

It will be done. It won't be done with even splits.

I opened a beer mile with a 72 second first lap and I actually felt that I was going too slow, until I heard the split. My second lap was a little over 80. After that...yeah, anyway.

I'm guessing that, when it's done, the first lap will be under 65.

Maybe it would look something like this: 64, 73, 78, 85.

I think you are presenting those splits in an odd way. You have to include beer splits.

I would think something like 4 x 63s 400m with <12s beer average is doable by a talented runner with a high tolerance for sloshing and sick beer skills. At some point the ability to drink canned beer fast enough becomes limiting.

I think the bottle record will definitely go sub 5.

It has been done and will be done again--it's easy! I know at least 3-4 guys from Providence in the 90's who could knock it off--you need to be a decnt runner since most freshman in high school can break 5 but a top notch drinker--which we all were

It's easy?!?! are you out of your mind. You are right in that the important part is drinking and an iron stomach to deal with all of the beer in your stomach the 3rd and 4th laps. The other thing people aren't thinking about is transition time. Most people, even really good runners are a little out of breath after a 62 or 63 and you can't chug a beer in 12 seconds if you need to breath in that 12 seconds. In order for it to be done you would need someone who can click off 63s for at least 3k pace, which cuts it down to probably less than 50 guys in the US (7:55 or better 3k).

Alas, the men made for such a calling, Rod Dixon, Steve Prefontaine, and Henry Rono are past their prime.

If you take 12 seconds to drink, you're done. You seriously think that someone is running a 4:12 mile with all that beer in their stomach?

5 seconds/beer is closer to the mark.

800 dude wrote:

If you take 12 seconds to drink, you're done. You seriously think that someone is running a 4:12 mile with all that beer in their stomach?

5 seconds/beer is closer to the mark.

Are you serious? 5 seconds per beer, out of a can? I think 12 is much more accurate as an average. Probably starting at 6-7s and getting slower. Read my post above... 4 x <63s and an avg 12s per beer sounds like how it will be done.

the only man manly enough in the world to accomplish this courageous feat is mr. andrew j acosta.

talk to this guy

1. Jim Finlayson 5:09.0 M 35 Granville Island Winter Ale, from bottle

from the

www.beermile.com

record book

he may be the first to break 5.

12 seconds--I sip beer that quick

4-5 max--real men can handle this